Auction Rooms, 4 Ward Road, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Auction rooms.

Auction Rooms, 4 Ward Road, Dundee

WRENN ID
peeling-corbel-clover
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1995
Type
Auction rooms
OS grid reference
NO 400 303
Coordinates
56.46151, -2.9745
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Auction Rooms on Ward Road in Dundee were designed by James Langlands in 1909. This building is a single storey with an attic and features twin gables. It is constructed of red brick, with the front harled, and has a corrugated sheet roof on the right-hand bay, while the left-hand bay has a slate roof. The bargeboards are plain timber.

The front elevation includes a bay on the right with three 12-pane metal windows. The left bay has a central bipartite 2-pane timber sash and case window with a continuous segmental hoodmould, flanked by two-leaf doors on the right and another bipartite window in the attic. There is a coped stack with two cans on the left-hand ridge. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Auction Rooms, 4 Ward Road, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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